The tragedy of little Domenico Bandieramonte who died at 4 years old. The family: "He caught a bacteria in the hospital"

Taormina, little Domenico Bandieramonte, the 4-year-old boy who was in serious conditions at the time, did not make it. cause of an infection perhaps caused by a hospital bacterium. For the family, the child seemed healthy until the symptoms of the infection appeared.

He was hospitalized at theSan Vincenzo Hospital of Taormina, and according to the family, the child had contracted a hospital-acquired bacterium that reached vital organs such as the heart and kidneys.
The child had been admitted to the hospital in Catania for an intestinal disorder. Domenico he would then have contracted the hospital bacteria which was devastating as his body was already weakened.

Little Domenico's mother, Ambra Cucina, had publicly told the whole story. Little Domenico's health problems began on June 29, when he felt ill due to nausea and diarrhea.

The next day his mother took him to the emergency room of a hospital in Catania, but the doctors thought it was an intestinal virus and so he was sent home. However, the child was still in pain and the parents decided to take him back to the hospital, but once again they had the same answers.

At this point the family decided to turn to another facility, San Marco in Catania. Here the child was placed under observation and, finding altered values, it was decided to apply a probe. Despite the pain, the child continued to enjoy good health.

Subsequently, however, his health conditions worsened to such an extent that he was transferred to the Policlinico in Catania; but after some clinical tests, it was decided to transfer him to Messina. And it was in Messina that the doctors confirmed an infection from Enterococcus.

Unfortunately, the child then had a cardiac arrest and was transferred to the hospital in Taormina. Here, brain damage was also found. At this point, little Domenico's conditions were very serious and remained so until his death.

The mother Ambra stayed with the little one until the end. The terrible story shocked everyone and quickly went viral on the web. Even the mayor of Lampedusa, the mother's hometown, expressed the city's closeness to the family: “We will provide for any needs of the parents.”

An event that shocked the entire community of Lampedusa and Catania. The citizens decided to organize a silent torchlight procession for little Domenico: “He must have justice, he cannot die like this.”

Domenico's mother had declared the day before his death: "I want justice for my son and I want the truth to come out. No child should have to go through what he went through. Today at the pediatric hospital in Taormina they are doing everything they can to keep him alive, but at the San Marco in Catania they let him get the infection that is killing him.or"

The note from the Health Authority of the Province of Messina

"Little Domenico, who died last night at the San Vincenzo hospital in Taormina, arrived at the hospital in desperate conditions". This was specified by the Provincial Health Authority of Messina, explaining that the 4-year-old child hospitalized in the cardiac surgery intensive care unit was subjected to a series of intensive treatments but the clinical picture left no room for improvement.. The death was confirmed at 20.33pm yesterday after several tests for brain death. “All the medical and paramedical staff and the Asp Messina Management joins in the pain of the familyi“, we read in a note.